Seen on FM-Style: Miss Independent

For Task 9 we did something that we never did before. Judith wrote a text about a fictional character and the contestants had to interpret the text and create an outfit appropriate for that person. Here's the text: 

"You could tell without knowing her that she was a confident independent woman. She walked everywhere like she owned the floor she was stepping on. She had never been an insecure person, she had never worried about others opinion. She didn’t have to pretend because she already fitted in. Her arrogance, her snobbishness, her pride emanated from every pore in her skin while a deep desire of disconnecting from her hectic life popped a little big through her clothes choice. She was who she was, and for an unknown reason people seemed to like her."

And then, for all the judges to have in mind the same idea, she also wrote some guidelines for them. However, contestants could write a different description as long as it matched the character. Here are the guidelines: 

- “deep desire of disconnecting from her hectic life” = Little exotic details (feathers, jewelry, something ethnic, something related to nature…)

- “people seemed to like her” , “She didn’t have to pretend because she already fitted in"  = Nothing too strange or extravagant, her clothes and appearance has to be likeable for the general public.

- “Her arrongance, her snobbishness, her pride emanated from every pore in her skin” = Elegant and luxury clothes.

- “she had never worried about others opinion” = Outfit with personality, nothing too common.

- “confident independent woman” = Adult’s clothes (avoid backpacks, converse sneakers…) and that shows self-assurance.

And after all this long introduction, 4 contestants did this task, but my favorites have been... 

Even the 2 outfits together look good, like they are exactly on the same street! 

We have Rawan (bornthiswaay) on the left, with a perfect outfit that described exactly the characteristics, but for me was a little too classy and was missing something more special, more exotic. That was the factor that made Teresa's (platinumgals) outfit my favorite. As I said on the feedback I wrote to her, for this task I was looking for this "I'm perfect without trying" look, and I think she totally made it. Looks like she just picked some items from her wardrobe put them all together and then tied her hair and added some red lipstick and ready to go. I just love it! 

Unfortunately, Felipe (yulissahermosa) decided to focus on other things besides Stardoll, so he dropped out of the cycle. As one contestant was already out, there was no other elimination besides him. 

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Splendorous: Hair Trends Brought To You By Stardesigners

Stardoll do what they can trying to keep up with all the trends, including beauty trends. The opening of Tress Up came to delight us with beautiful hairs trendier and prettier than the ones we were so tired of seeing in the beauty parlor. However the trend game is fast and quick and leaves a gap of some hair trends that stardoll doesn't cover. Luckily for us, we can still get our hands on the latests coolest hairstyles thanks to some talented wig designers. And to make it even easier, here I am, to tell you where you can buy in stardoll the hairstyle you've been seeing so much on instagram.

• Boxer Braids by MUNCHKIN_XD: Embraced by the clan Kardashian-Jenner and worn by probably every blogger/influencer (even Chiara Ferragni), here it is the last trend on braids. The wig comes in three parts: Head (89SD) and the two braids (78SD each), which makes a total of 245SD. For me it's quite a fortune but the truth is that the hairstyle is perfectly made.

• Wet Hair by PATRONUS.: This wet hair effect has been going on for a while now but yet stardoll didn't think about giving the option of buying it, PATRONUS. did. I'm almost sure there are other versions of the hairstyle by other designers in different colours but I wasn't able to find any that was still available for sale. Anyway is not as if this one wasn't pretty enough... You can get the wig in her bazaar in just a single piece for 89SD.

• Blonde Beach Waves by hannahjohns1: A.k.a the hair you wished you had every summer. This version by hannahjohns (former FM-Style contestant) is perfect in texture, colour, length... The wig is sold in three parts for a total amount of 271SD (83SD + 51SD + 83SD), another little fortune, but again quality is quality.

• Half Up Bun by CandyAlize: This trend has been so difficult to find! Not because there weren't enough designs, but because for some unknown reason every beautiful wig of a half up bun that I found wasn't on sale or it was but under a long wait list of restocking that didn't give me any clue about the price. Believe me I tried. Then I found this version by CandyAlize and after all the research I made it was heaven! She sells the wig in two parts (83SD + 80SD) for a total amount of 163SD. And if you are interested some of the half up buns I found that I couldn't find out the price so I didn't use them for the post are on Sana_who_Sana and pepelepew presentations.

• Grey Hair by Mirage.: One of the most popular hair trends in colouring has been (along with the fantasy colours I guess) grey. I must admit that I'm not that keen on it but when I see it in beautiful hairs they totally got me. Like this wig, that you can get for 166SD.

Hope this was helpful or at least enjoyable! Have a good weekend!

Shopping: Christmas Gift-O-Meter (7/10)

Hello again! We're getting there! Here it comes the 7th part and only 3 more to go! Whoop whoop! Also, now that we're giving positive vibes... it's also Thursday, so only one more day for Friday, could that be even more cool? But anyway, let's go to business.

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For the 7th gift/"prize for spending money" we had multiple items again, as in number 3 (click here for the 3/10 post). Pretty fair for an amount of 145 sd. Honestly, I don't think I can pull a look with the 3 items together, basically because I would never ever pair that sweater with those "Louboutin" heels. In my opinion the 3 of them are pretty nice items, being my least liked one the "Gucci" bag, but it can be useful. What do you think? Do you reach that goal? 

And here they are my outfits. For the first outfit I went on with using my favorite piece of the three: the sweatshirt. I decided to keep it sporty and combined it with sneakers, but also adding some "fashion" with the fur coat. But you can also create nice outfit going for something more lady and combining it with skirts, as I did on the second outfit. That is a trend that was seen in plenty of catwalks on A/W 2015-16 and I wanted to do a task on FM-Style about it, but never was the appropriate time, so at the end we did not do it. But I wanted to try and outfit 2 is the result of that. The third outfit is me using this bag that I don't like that much, mostly for its black but not that black color. I decided to went for basic and then giving a outstanding touch with those thigh-high-sandals that I love. And all the opposite for the last outfit, using the shoes. As a pair of Louboutins are a very classic piece, I didn't want to overcharge my outfit, so I chose a dress from a similar colour of the shoes, and added a bag in a red also similar to the sole of those elegant shoes. For not making the outfit that fancy (even if the dress wasn't), I let the hair of my doll loose. And that's all! Hope you enjoy it :) 

Seen On FM-Style: Stole the show

Task 8 was tricky. You could feel the difficulty when Saturday arrived and only one of our contestants had delivered their task. We gave them an album with pictures of different artists performing on stage and what they had to do is pick one and recreate it but with a little twist that could be worn on the streets, that means reduce a little bit the extravagance of most of the outfits. 

In the end, with a little bit of delay, 5 out of 7 contestants delivered their tasks and as always they brought us beautiful outfits that I'm about to share. 

To be honest the marks I gave this time were all very high, all of them above 8, so I had a lot of trouble picking the outfits I would share with you here. The one I had clear was the one Lucia (roco_90) delivered. Second time on a row that she is between my favourites, she's doing well!

This is an almost perfect representation of how Taylor Swift's outfit would look on the streets. I loved it!

And as my second favourites I decided to pick two very different outfits. 

On one hand we've got Rawan (bornthiswaay) who did an amazing job at recreating Britney Spear's outfit as it was the most difficult artist of the whole album. On the other hand we've got exactly the opposite, Teresa (platinumgals) with an amazing outfit which was easier to represent. Both are great and deserved to be here anyway!

This time, even though we were supposedly having a double elimination it wasn't hard for us, the contestants saved us the trouble, as two of them did not complete it. And like that, there were only 5 left...